"President Obama still places far too much emphasis……" — Jonathan Kozol
"President Obama still places far too much emphasis on relentless testing with standardized exams."
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106 Quotes by Jonathan Kozol
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More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on…
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We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit.…
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What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you…
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Let's concede that we have decided to let our children grow up in two separate nations, and lead two separate…
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I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy.
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The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens.…
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If you could lead through testing, the U.S. would lead the world in all education categories. When are people going…
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As damaging as the obsessive emphasis on testing often proves to be for kids in general, I believe that the…
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Childhood is not merely basic training for utilitarian adulthood. It should have some claims upon our mercy, not for its…
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Unlike these powerful grown-ups, children have no ideologies to reinforce, no superstructure of political opinion to promote, no civic equanimity…
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So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with…
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Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools.
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More Emphasis Quotes
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My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater…
— Roseanne Barr
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All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.
— Conrad Black
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Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous…
— Ruben Blades
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I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.
— Tony Blair
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The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to…
— David Brinkley
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I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach…
— Mitch Albom
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I make a distinction between Buddhism with a Capital 'B' and buddhism with a small 'b'. Sri Lanka has the…
— Sulak Sivaraksa
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Complacency with our traditional judgement based thinking methods is not enough. Our existing thinking habits are excellent just as the…
— Edward de Bono
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Putting together a counter- terrorism policy, it's very easy to look at law enforcement or defense, military action or stopping…
— Lee H. Hamilton
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Love requires that true education should be easily accessible to all and should be of use to every villager in…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history's clear lesson, for history…
— Douglas MacArthur
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I put a lot of emphasis on how to treat people. The reason for this is simple. The real success…
— Mary Kay Ash
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